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The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I'm looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest.

Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.

In politics, victory is never total.

Politics is the only field in which the more experience you have, the worse you get.

When we talk about safety and security of the American people, politics falls aside pretty quickly.

I think things changed as a result of a certain perception of our politics. When we went through our zealous, self-righteous period it didn't exactly win us any friends.

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

To balance China, the democracies will need new friends - and India with its fast-growing economy, youthful population, and democratic politics seems the obvious candidate.

Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

War is the ultimate tool of politics.

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.

I became active in politics because I saw the possibility, if we all sat back and did nothing, of a world in which there would no longer be any stages for actors to act on.

There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.